skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're often sold as "flexible bollards"[1], so I think it's fair to evaluate them by that title.

I don't object to the idea that EMS or other emergency responders might need roadside access. From my experience, many European cities do this admirably by having retractable bollards embedded in the street, or by redesigning streets to have a bollard-free section (e.g. by the fire hydrant, where it's already illegal to park or idle).

(There's also the irony of not placing bollards into a street crossing because emergency services might need it, when bollards might prevent the need for many emergency responses.)

[1]: https://www.reliance-foundry.com/bollard/flexible-bendable
The congresspeople who voted to shut down TikTok have been very open about the reason: https://twitter.com/wideofthepost/status/1787104142982283587
Those early ones were for horse-drawn carriages (cars).
The notion that any of us could ever *be equal* has always annoyed me at how obviously absurd it is but I’m glad to see this has been written about before. It’s like we’ve already descended into 1984 territory and we’re all spouting about “equality” because it’s the “right thing to do” even though we all know it’s not physically possible. Equal opportunities are not enough, or so it would be said, because history! Well.. the historical period I care about!

And then we all act shocked when someone turns to violence to force people to grapple with reality
> gay marriage is illegal

Is that the bar now? Gay people get thrown from buildings next door in Gaza and they get strung up from a crane in Iran. On that basis, as a gay man, I'd much rather let Israel "trot out the rainbow flags" than take my chances with their enemies.
Sure but the idea that the "little guy" doesn't stand a chance against the big hedge funds does seem baseless.
And raising speed limits where appropriate. US speed limits right now are often set at about the right level on urban and suburban roads, but far too low on highways and other roads intended for long-distance travel. This effectively causes people to speed at dangerous levels in the suburbs and cities - it does not slow everyone down everywhere.

Edit: The statement "speed limits are about right" does not mean "current travel speeds are about right." If you read the rest of the comment, it means that current travel speeds are about 5-10 mph too fast for most roads, but you don't actually need to change any signs if you start making speed limits a credible fact about the actual speed limit of the road.
I can go tit-for-tat with examples from Israeli newspapers or even Israeli government for the rest of the day, but like I said, what matters is the overall pattern and how this compares. And as far as I know, Al Jazeera is not significantly worse here.

Also: why are you using two accounts? :-/
Wow it’s a small world. I just discovered your channel recently and love the content. Probably watched the home lab video like 10 times. I have a historic building with 3 vacation rentals that I’m in the process of adding some intelligence and monitoring to, including a raspberry pi kiosk based on one of your videos. Thanks for making them!
> when their entire political class is banning and censoring opposition media?

This is not a dead disqualifier for a liberal society. Practically everyone but America does it.
> Gay people get thrown from buildings next door in Gaza and they get strung up from a crane in Iran

Nobody argued Hamas, Iran or even the Palestinian people, are liberal.
I didn't realise they had two versions, but it makes sense. Is the anti-infidel version only available in Arabic then?
I had a dinner with someone directly affected by MIT's recent slashing of DEI. At one point they mentioned that they made sure a venue had chairless locations and shuttles with lifts for baby strollers. Someone else at the dinner said "for disabled people too, right?" The person who worked at MIT organizing events reacted like they had never once considered disability access. The term "inclusion" should not be co-opted to mean "exclusion".
> Israel lets more aid through now than before the October 7th atrocities. That aid is intercepted by Hamas and does not reach the intended recipients.

No, they do not. There are still less full aid trucks even after the murder of the World kitchen volunteers massively increased international pressure on Israel to let aid in.

Northern Gaza is now in full blown famine as defined by top US officials that define famine, with southern Gaza on the brink of famine, as all farming infastructure inside gaza gas has now been destroyed. They need drastically more full trucks than the the 500/day that was the norm before the war started, not drastically fewer.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-aid-coordinator-says-israel...
The black menu bar appearing at 30% of the page height in Firefox on Android make the site feel pretty amateurosh (though the content is mildly interesting)
Turn this into an AI Blocker - create a browser add-on that detects AI faces and reports it to a central site. If a channel gets enough face-detected signals, then put them on a blocklist that users can subscribe to.

No idea how one would get off the list if there was a false positive or discontinuation of AI usage. Digital proof is basically useless at this point.

Personally, I'd just leave them on there forever, since YouTube channels are basically fungible, but some people don't go for that approach.
Do these numbers distinguish between journalists killed while doing journalism vs journalists killed as collateral damage not in the capacity of a journalist vs combatants who were journalists prior to picking up a gun and joining the war?

I feel like its very hard to draw any conclusions from these numbers without distinguishing between those cases (other than of course that war is a tragedy and innocents generally pay the price of war).
No.

The difference is that IDs are part of the public API.

Your database schema (KV or otherwise) is not.
If you can't be bothered to pull over while driving by yourself in the nuclear apocalypse but you urgently need to get the latest emergency broadcast info despite FM being down (EAS also uses that) and cell towers being down then sure, it's an advantage to have it built in. In every other actually conceivable case... it's a worse answer from both the implementation and execution perspectives.

If you can get into someone else's functioning vehicle you can also get to the one mandated to be in the trunk instead, where the radio is guaranteed to work without actually being able to start the car too.
I’ll see what I can do, thanks for the feedback!
So your response is a seven year old video asserting I'm simply ignorant? Not a particularly winning argument. And flagging your initial response since you've now edited in baseless accusations of antisemitism. That's not how you have a conversation here.
It's quite usual to ban the enemy from inciting dissidence from your own population during a war.
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> Focusing obsesively in Israel is antisemitism

Israel is front-page news because it's an American ally. Sudan and Myanmar are not. People are focussing on it because it's being talked about.
Legal communication importantly covers a subscriber cancelling their contract! This is actually one of my most common use cases for writing to the "imprint" email address.
"won't someone please think of the money"
>> workers using the walkways to never loiter there so the odds of having a person there at the time a log hit it were reduced.

Also the #1 safety factor when in avalanche country. When a threat is deadly, inevitable and unstoppable, speed becomes your best safety device. You don't loiter when crossing a gully on skis, nor do you stop to admire the view when driving though certain mountain valleys.
The Imitation Game doesn't do justice to Turing himself, either. Pretty dreadful all around.
> it behooves them to understand how an applicant understands and would configure into that plan.

I (and a lot of us I think) follow you up to this point, but then you lose us here.

How does a written statement, the expected content of which is clearly known, give any understanding of the individual's position? This type of approach to education seems to me that it actively harms the ability to sway people's opinions.

I have this issue with a lot of discussions of DEI, there are a lot of arguments that support the DEI goal and a dearth of arguments that support the methods being used to achieve that goal.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40268301.
It's a ranking, so presumably part of the US dropping is due to other countries improving. There is another major negative change noted though - more newspaper closures and huge layoffs at news organizations. It also sounds like the Sociocultural section might be partially based on polling of trust in media, which could have dropped, but I don't know where to look into that more.

The 2018 report you're talking about is here: https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/worldwilde_round-up.pdf. The list is not the most dangerous countries for journalists, but the most deadly - a straightforward measure of how many journalists were killed in each country. They publish this every year and the US is usually not on it, but this year someone murdered 4 journalists because of their reporting. I'm not sure how they could make this more objective, and I can't think of any metric that would include murders committed by angry men in cartels or angry men with SUVs in India but not angry men with shotguns in America.

Obviously the falling tree is not reflective of the journalistic climate in the country, but if they had been the only two the US would not have been listed. The mass shooting is what put it within the same neighborhood as Mexico and India.

Here's the latest one of these, which as usual does not feature America: https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/medias/file/2023/12/Bila....
You can get less shit ones that aren't made of Chinesium from Shelly
I recently wrote a writeup on bigrams and the infinigram outputs[1]. I genuinely believe that ngrams are making a comeback. For query searching it's really good.

[1] https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/from_bigram_to_infinigram.h...
> How do you know it will continue to function as a circuit breaker and isn't just a piece of wire inside?

I don't care. I connected my previous breaker after it.
>Whether the translation is accurate to the source material is irrelevant; the readers literally can't tell and don't care

As a professional translator, I cherish those readers. They have the good sense to trust me to do the technical part (understanding the original) and only criticize the artistic part (producing a beautiful derivative work).

The worst readers are the ones who have some knowledge of the source language, and rush to nitpick the technical decisions without considering the artistic ones. They are the literary equivalent of those "fans" who will watch a stunning film adaptation and then go home to complain about the colour of Gandalf's shoes or the width of a sand worm's molars. Ultimately, readers of this type are all ego, more concerned about being right than about whether the work is good.

The very best readers, of course, are knowledgeable in both languages and understand that "equivalence" goes far beyond what is written in the dictionary. But as you say, they don't need the translation!
I don’t usually comment on these posts, but as a HIPAA compliance practitioner working with covered entities (also business associates) I have to take a contrarian view of HIPAA compliance efforts by providers. HIPAA is mostly a “check the box” type of compliance effort, as opposed to building a “culture of compliance.” Most compliance efforts stop at the technology barrier. For business associates, the compliance dynamic is even worse. While the larger BA’s do generally comply, because their focus is generally on the technology, for midsized and smaller BA’s , in most cases know the CE will take at face value that the BA is compliance. But there is a reason about 30% (by number) of all breached are caused by BA’s
> Then let me go on record as saying that I fully support my government and my army's efforts to return the remaining hostages [...]

This is a common talking point that makes no sense when you think about it. Could you please explain how you envision the hostage release to be achieved through bombing and systematic destruction of the area that they are held in? It sounds much more likely to kill them instead. Why not simply negotiate a hostage exchange? Do you expect that if Hamas was about to be completely wiped out, that they would not simply kill all the hostages that were still alive up to that point?
> The threat these represent to our long term survival and prosperity are such that we are keen to at least acknowledge and mark our and our prospective collaborators’ efforts to improve the status quo.

I'm very skeptical that there is any threat to our survival here, or that DEI is any kind of response capable of resolving it. DEI is about "justice", a set of ethical principles, not about some utilitarian calculation about social survival or prosperity.
Don't even bring that movie into this discussion, it's a historical atrocity.
I agree that it seems that some people are drawn towards abstraction, while are are drawn to spezialisation. (Also in learning, in PL class, I needed to see code samples and infer the rules from there, others needed to see the rules and could produce code samples from that).

I think that it is good to view generalization as a tool. Like everything in software engineering, it is not an exact since and is influenced by many factors etc. But for me a guiding rule is: "When it is really clear that something will change in the future, then it makes sense to generalize. It is clear enough when you were willing to bet one week of your salary on that the need for generalization arises within X time." (where X is something less up to a year).

Mainly because this communicates intend to future code readers: "Beware, this thing will likely not be alone soon".
Kind of but they're meeting a need even if it's a bit of an inefficient way to do it. I don't think most library visitors are there for books anymore, at least not where I go. It's adults using the web, kids playing videogames, parents entertaining their kids with the toys, local bored people chatting to the librarians, club meetings, moving screenings, etc. One librarian told me they're really now a "community center" rather than a library and that they don't have that old-fashioned rule of being quiet in the library.
Can you point to some articles in Aljazeera Arabic that is doing what you're accusing?
When we have all the infrastructure for an even more oppressive and intrusive total information awareness regime, DEIs are so far from 1984. DEIs are just dumb paperwork and formal procedure on top of the usual facade of hiring and promotion rigamarole
It's extremely regional.

It would be better to invest on something what would track the things you need and notify you if the price drops or there is a surge in availability.

And an anecdote to complement this:

I have 1155 desktop PC with Pentium G2020 (2cores/2threads, ugh). I can fit almost anything Ivy/Sandy Bridge in the mobo, but...

i7 3770 is still $300, while various refurb Xeons E3 v2 are $20-30.

And the best part is what even if I buy something like 1270v2 (4c/8t, full eq for 3770) it would still be a more than a decade old system and it wouldn't improve the performance much.
I've considered using CoreMotion data from AirPods to recognize at least yes/no head-shaking, but mainly targeting a vigorous shake in order to mute without hands or voice. An open-source example would be a great starting-point!
Huh; according to Merriam-Webster the word has basically lost meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenomenon

The first definition is how you and OP used it, the second is how I used it (exclusive of things that can be "sensed" as opposed to reasoned).
Here Blinken and Romney discuss why Tiktok is being banned over allowing recommendations of Gaza coverage into people's feeds:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/1ckte1k/...

There were attempts at banning it before the war, so probably not the only reason but it does seem to be why the push to ban it reemerged again.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law with union comments, NLRB rules
I know a lot of tech people in london worked in old street and dalston, but Soho was actually real. One of the nice things was that real people lived and worked in soho. Mostly it was people to do with clothing or restaurants.

Soho never really had the influx of twats marvelling at the quaintness of poverty, you lived there because you either had a workshop, were astronomically rich, had a council house, or worked in either sex, drugs, food or booze.

Berwick market is a husk of its former self, and shop rents are way to fucking high to allow experimentation on a new idea. Moreover all but one of the big VFX shops have moved away.

its a husk of its former self.

It doesn't help that a bunch of rich twats have moved in and gone "gosh, its terribly noisy at night".

> The residents group even stopped a comically ugly post-war Tesco from being demolished

I suspect the reason for that is because when they did crossrail, they knocked down the top end of dean street and replaced pub, flats and office blocks with a massive souless glass mega shop. which kinda defeats the purpose of soho really. If there was 50 council flats in the top, then it would be more appealing.
Yes it is. They have low to no journalistic standards in that edition and it's heavily propagandized depending on their agenda. Their entire reputation is based on the Western version as "look we use those standards everywhere" which is definitely not true.
Sure, the Star was the prototype and the Lisa refined. But Microsoft made the exact same arguments about utilizing the right mouse button and context menus, where Macintosh didn't; Apple countered that those were mere "interfacing changes".

Again, the point isn't "I would sit down and accidentally think I'm using a Mac" (though, you certainly would more likely think that than Windows), it's "how much of this exists because of the other one, and how similar is it in concept".
Indeed, up until 2014 the BBC World Service was literally funded by the Foreign Office.
On that we agree. It is wrong. But you're either wrong or dead.
This seems reasonable to me? If a western press were outside missile factories saying "this is the only place our super missiles are built!" I would expect the department of defence to block that information from being published...
A good start would be life without parole for the murderer
>> the world seeing israel as an illegitimate pariah state

>Your other claims are true. This one is not.

I should have phrased that more precisely but I was just judging by what Israel's ministry of hasbara itself seems to be most concerned with and fears the most is people questioning israel's legitimacy. Combined with the sentiment that can be seen across social media where even regular folks have started seeing israel as a racist settler colonial project that has no legitimacy. But you're correct, my previous wording was too ambiguous since "the world" is too broad and can refer to too many things.
What differentiates this from other desktop environments?
I understand you’re trying to strong man this. But I think we need to interrogate the premise here. How does “inequity” represent a “threat” to our “long term survival and prosperity?” What is the specific causal mechanism by which we expect that to happen?

It seems facially implausible to me, given that America became prosperous when these inequalities were much worse. Why do we accept this premise as a given?
Why not just use a current transformer? (Clamp over wire type) It's much safer.
> it sounds like the killed person was walking down the middle of a totally ordinary sidewalk, not a bus stop or intersection or storefront or anything

Are we talking about the same article? The article says she was at a bus stop.

> Ashlee McGill was waiting at a bus stop at Southeast Stark Street and 133rd Avenue
I found a non-paywalled version of the same article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/drunken-driving-deaths-...
> Has that US policy changed now? If so I would have expected Qatar to expel

Yes. Hamas was seen by even Israel as better than anarchy. That's why they let Doha fund them.

We're now seeing American lawmakers criticising Qatar [1]. That's prompting Dohas to "re-evaluat[e] its role as mediator in ceasefire talks" and weigh "whether to allow Hamas to continue operating [its] political office" [2][3].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatar-says-gaza-ce...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatar-says-gaza-ce...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatar-considers-fu...
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I love these ATORCH ones on Amazon, they have a screen with a bunch of useful details, super stable wifi connection, over-voltage/current/power protection, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BGSYJQK6/
> The US White House press secretary issued a weak statement condemning Israel's action, but it was on April 1st and the costumed Easter Bunny overshadowed that statement.[7]

Wow you can't make this stuff up
We all have our own gifts.
Because you can't arrest a corpse...? /s
Seems pretty civil at the moment
Windows and macOS both use a form of two level name-spacing, which does the same sort of direct binding to a target library for each symbol. Retrofitting that into a binary format is pretty simple, but retrofitting it into an ecosystem that depends on the existing flat namespace look up semantics is not. I think it is pretty clever that the author noticed the static nature of the nix store allows them to statically evaluate the symbol resolutions and get the launch time benefits of two level namespaces.

I do wonder if it might make more sense to rewrite the binaries to use Direct Binding[1]. That is an existing encoding of library targets for symbols in ELF that has been used by Solaris for a number of years.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_binding
There are a handful of contexts where it makes more sense, like for a HR person potentially, without trying to bring ideology into it that's the place it makes sense since that's the place where you can actually implement the concepts.

There are contexts where it is mandatory but makes no sense, like NSF Fellowship Applications where they're asking someone who is just finishing an undergraduate degree and is proposing a research project that ends in a PhD -- who has effectively no influence on hiring or even culture really, and is supposed to focus on the technical aspects and personal aspects of who they are. There are things you can fit in there, but let's say the mandatory question is worded so confusingly that it is hard to even guess what to write about. What, you're going to hire people to assist you in your research under DEI principles when you have no control over the budget? It's just confusing for someone in that position.

Staff hiring? That kind of makes more sense honestly, trying to be non-ideological here. Those people can actually hire people and create a culture that is either DEI positive or not, whatever you believe about whether they should.
Other important thing is that paper was able to handle "all the exceptions", notes on margins, corrections, other paper clipped to it, whatever. Sure it was ugly, but it was in-band.

If there's no way to do this in a new system, then it means there will be a parallel semi-official informal shadow of it scattered around in out-of-band channels (emails, phone, paper!), and that leads to more complexity, which kills efficiency.
They’re executing better.

Microsoft has never made great products with some exceptions.
HEH. I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

Killing children is always wrong.